The early revision XBox units have a Conexant chip (I think a 2587x) chip, which is an excellent chip for TV-out solutions. I had the chance to work briefly with one in one of the products that the company I work for makes.
The quality is so good, that I considered inquiring about forking out the money for a reference board (there is an AGP version available) just to use it for MythTV (after writing a driver, of course). That said, I'm using an eVGA GeForce 5200FX card, and the TV-Out picture quality is quite acceptable, if I enable the Bob de-interlacer, and use OpenGL VSync. The OSD flickers like mad sometimes though, depending on the text displaying in it (and maybe the video content playing). Now that XV support is in the PVR-350, I'm thinking about giving it a shot again. I already tried it with Xine, and it was working well, but I didn't get a chance to try it with xmame. The two downsides to the PVR-350, as far as I'm concerned are: 1. Lack of overscan controls 2. XV doesn't work too well with MythTV yet, I'm pretty sure that is an ivtv driver issue. You have to enable some form of deinterlacing to get a decent picture on the PVR-350, if you don't use the MPEG decoder, and Bob causes all sorts of strange effects. Mind you, the only reason to not use the decoder would be so that I could have a program guide that doesn't take up the full screen. It's a trade-off, I guess. On the other hand, if anybody knows anything more than I do, for getting good output on the 5200FX, I'd be more than happy to experiment. -- Joe --- Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael T. Dean wrote: > > > > 3.) Took the time to *learn* how to properly > configure their NVIDIA > > cards for TV out > > > > I think think there are quite a few us who would > love any tips on how > to properly configure our NVIDIA cards. > > Some mentioned differences between manufacturers - > for the record, I > have an AOpen GeForce 5200, and it looks like crap > (my XBox frontend > looks better). > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
